Sir Nigel d'Aubigny 
Nigel was born in 1080 in Aubigny, Calvados, Normandie, France.1 Nigel's father was Roger d'Aubigny and his mother was Amice de Grentemesnil. His paternal grandparents were William d'Aubigny and Adelicia Belvoir de Plessis; his maternal grandparents were Hugh de Grentemesnil and Adeliza de Beaumont. He had two brothers named William and Roger. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 49 on November 26th, 1129.1 General Notes
Sir Nigel d'Albini, who came to England with the Conqueror and obtained several extensive lordships after the Battle of Hastings. He was knighted by Henry I, who conferred many grants and favors upon him, and so attached him to his sovereign that he served him faithfully in his cause against Robert Curthose (Robert of Normandy, Crusader), the King's brother, whom he captured and delivered over to King Henry, for which he had further rich grants of confiscated manors. For distinguished military services in Normandy he was remunerated by a royal grant of the forfeited lands and castles of his maternal uncle, Robert de Mowbray, both in Normandy and England. These grants made him possessor of 240 knight's fees, and consequently one of the most influential barons of his time. He died at an advanced age and was buried with his ancestors in the Abbey of Bec in Normandy. He married first his Aunt Maud (wife of his Uncle Robert), daughter of Richard, Baron Aquila. by papal dispensation, her husband Robert aforesaid being then alive, but in prison for rebellion. From her, by whom he had no issue, he was separated by the Pope on account of consanguinity and the scandal the marriage caused. He married 2nd in 1118 Gundreda, daughter of Gerald, second Baron de Gournay by his wife Edith, daughter of William de Warren, first Earl of Surrey and his wife Gundreda, daughter of William the Conqueror. By his 2nd wife he had Roger.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 374)
Nigel was rewarded with the escheated fief of Geoffrey de la Guerche, of which Melton (Mowbray) was the head, and with forfeited lands in Yorkshire. Nigel married, by dispensation, the wife of his cousin, the imprisoned earl, but afterwards divorced her, and by another wife was father of a son Roger, who took the name of Mowbray.
(Wikipedia)
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Note: Nele d'Aubigny (son of Roger and Amice), d. 21/26 Nov 1129, who was granted the English lands of Robert de Stuteville after the battle of Tinchebral, 1106. (Nele had m. (1) Maud de Laigle, former wife of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose surname "Mowbray" was taken by his son by Gundred.). [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0905 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France d.0972
- b.0940
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0980 in St. Sauveur, Normandy, France d.1071
<Unknown>
- b.1010 in St. Martin D'Aubigny, France d.1066
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1015 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0935 in Brionne, Normandy, France
- b.0985 in Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0930 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France d.0968
- b.0958 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0937 in Ghent, Flanders d.0970
- b.1045 in Aubigny, Normandy, France d.1084
- b.0955 in Plessis-Mace, France
- b.0990 in Plessis, Normandy, France d.1064
<Unknown>
- b.1020
<Unknown>
- b.1080 in Aubigny, Calvados, Normandie, France d.26 Nov 1129
- b.0960 in Bretagne, France
- b.0990 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France d.17 Jun 1039 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1030 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France d.22 Feb 1092 in Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.0935 in Bastembourg, Normandy, France d.0978 in Heismes, Normandy, France
- b.0968 in Heismes, Normandy, France d.1020 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Montanolier, Normandy, France
- b.1007 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.0928 in Chateau Briquebec, Manche, Normandy, France d.0997 in Montfort-Sur-Risle, Normandy, France
- b.0972 in Montfort-Sur-Risle, Normandy, France
- b.0930 in Manche, Normandy, France
- b.1045 d.1084
- d.1035
- b.0975 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.1022 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1005 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.22 May 1059 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France
- b.1130 in Mauvoisin, Nord, France d.01 Sep 1192
- b.0980 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.1039 in France
<Unknown>
- b.1035 in Beaumont, France d.11 Jul 1091 in Rouen, Normandy, France
- b.0960 in Gournay, Normandy, France
- b.0985 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France d.1074 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1008 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 1099
- b.0985 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.1000 in Normandy, France d.16 Jan 1098
- b.1003
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Details of Nigel's family with Gundred de Gournay
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I15658&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I6319, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I10705, Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I6319, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I10705, Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
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